The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is a systematic review of the health and wellbeing needs of Lincolnshire's population. It identifies priorities and informs the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy. Local voluntary and community sector (VCS) organizations can influence the JSNA process by identifying needs, gaps in services, and effective interventions. They can also facilitate engagement with underrepresented community groups. The VCS plays an important role in shaping local health priorities and future service planning through the JSNA.

1. Public Health in Lincolnshire:
What is the JSNA and how the
local VCS can influence it
Involving Lincs Conference
28th October 2014
Workshop Session
Lisa Loy & Lorna Leaston
Strategy and Performance
Public Health

2. Health and Wellbeing Board required to:
• Undertake a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
(JSNA) and agree shared priorities
• Produce a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy
(JHWS), using the evidence in the JSNA
• Promote integrated working between NHS and
local government (includes ensuring CCG plans
align to JSNA and JHWS and agreeing future
intentions for Integration Transformation Fund)

3. Background to JSNA
What is the JSNA?
A systematic review of the health and wellbeing
needs of the population…
…leading to agreed priorities across organisations
that will…
…improve the health and wellbeing of the
community at the same time as reducing health
inequalities.

4. JSNA Topic Commentary
What do we know?
• Indicator details
• Data, trends, profiles
• Targets and performance
data
• Local views and
engagement
• National and local
strategies
• Current commissioned
activity and services
What is this telling us?
• Key inequalities What are
the knowledge gaps?
• How are these impacting
on effective service
commissioning/delivery?
• What are the risks of us
not delivering?
• What is coming on the
horizon and what should
we be doing next?

5. JSNA Priorities (Health and
Wellbeing Strategy Themes)
• Promoting healthier lifestyles
• Improve the health and wellbeing of older
people
• Delivering high quality systematic care for major
causes of ill health and disability
• Improve health and social outcomes for children
and reduce inequalities
• Tackling the social determinants of health

6. Role of VCS in JSNA Process
As service providers and advocates of local community
members, local VCS organisations can play a role in:
• Identifying health and social care needs (providing both
qualitative and quantitative data)
• Providing information on services that are available,
gaps in provision and the effectiveness of current
provision
• Advising on how health needs can be met
• Supporting and facilitating the engagement of their client
groups in the JSNA process, particularly for those who
are most vulnerable and seldom heard.

7. Getting Involved
• Provides a crucial opportunity for VCS to shape the local
agenda for health & well-being
• Can represent & advocate for the needs of seldom heard
/ under-represented groups & individuals
• Can highlight unmet need (and gaps in provision) to
inform future service planning.
• Third sector can provide evidence for the most effective
interventions at a local level advising on issues of quality
to improve local provision.
• Jointly develop a more enabling asset-led approach
(starting with ‘what we do have’)

9. Case Study example
LVSC (London Voluntary & Community sector) set up 'On the
Radar‘ - an innovative database of public health services
delivered by VCS
• Used by commissioners tendering new contracts;
• Raises the profile of VCS & demonstrates their impact to a
relevant audience of public health decision-makers, increasing
opportunities for organisations to be commissioned in the
future;
• Enables London's public health commissioners to identify gaps
in services & new development opportunities for VCS
organisations;
• Enables VCS organisations to use the database to research
possible partner organisations in their area or if they want to
know about a range of other public health services delivered
by VCS organisations.

11. Group Exercise
Looking at the Commissioning Cycle diagram devised by
Regional Voices
• Find 2 or 3 examples at the local level of what we
do/could do (in each of the 4 areas of the cycle) –
this shows what opportunities exist at the local level
& where we might want to focus on improving them
• Consider how can we demonstrate progress
How can we measure the benefit and impact of
the VCS's involvement?

12. Thank you
Lisa Loy Lorna Leaston
Programme Officer Programme Co-ordinator
Public Health Directorate Public Health Directorate
Lincolnshire County Council Lincolnshire County Council
8 Email lisa.loy@lincolnshire.gov.uk 8 Email lorna.leaston@lincolnshire.gov.uk
( Tel 01522 554017 ( Tel 01522 552538